16A: immigration

• "FREE SILVER"


  Was not ever adopted into law
• "FREE SILVER"


  This would create inflation and inflation would cause farmers debts to be less
• "FREE SILVER"


  The Populists wanted US money to be backed by gold and silver (instead of just gold)
• "FREE SILVER"


  Bryan said: "You will not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"
• "FREE SILVER"


  Issue supported by Bryan and the Populists
• WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN


  Defeated by big business supporter William McKinley who had financial support from Carnegie and Rockefeller
• WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN


  Supported the farmer and the worker
• WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN


  "No man can earn a million dollars honestly"
• WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN


  Populist leader who ran for president by attacking big business leaders
• POPULIST PARTY


  Lost elections, but ideas adopted by both Republicans and Democrats
• POPULIST PARTY


  Led by William Jennings Bryan
• POPULIST PARTY

  Supported free silver and also the progressive income tax
• POPULIST PARTY


  The "people's party" had support from the farmers
• POPULIST PARTY

  "Third Party" - a political party that's not one of the big two parties
• THE GRANGE AND THE FARMERS ALLIANCE


  After organizing and protesting, the government supported the farmers against the railroads with Munn v Illinois and the Interstate Commerce Act
• THE GRANGE AND THE FARMERS ALLIANCE

  Farmers organizations against the abusive railroad monopolies that were raising prices on transporting food, which put the farmers into debt
• MECHANIZATION OF FARMS

  In the late 1800s, mechanization in the Great Plains led to an increase in food production
• NEW IMMIGRATION

  Southern & Eastern Europe: Italian, Russian, plus Japanese & Chinese
• NEW IMMIGRATION

  After Civil War
• OLD IMMIGRATION

  Northern & Western Europe: Irish and German
• OLD IMMIGRATION

  Before Civil War
• OLD IMMIGRATION VS. NEW IMMIGRATION

  New immigrants were culturally different and lived in urban areas
• OLD IMMIGRATION VS. NEW IMMIGRATION

  Many Irish immigrants came to escape the Irish potato famine
• OLD IMMIGRATION VS. NEW IMMIGRATION

  Big business leaders supported open immigration with no restrictions because they needed a supply of workers for the factories
• URBANIZATION DURING INDUSTRIALIZATION

  Ghetto - an area with the same ethnic group, like Chinatown and Little Italy
• URBANIZATION DURING INDUSTRIALIZATION


  Big businesses needed immigrants to move to the US and they moved to northern cities
• MELTING POT THEORY OF IMMIGRATION

  America is a mix of cultures and our country benefits from the different ideas
• PLURALISM THEORY OF IMMIGRATION


  "Salad Bowl Theory"- Immigrants keep their own culture and live side-by-side with other cultures
• ASSIMILATION THEORY OF IMMIGRATION

  Immigrants adapting to the American culture and learning English
• NATIVISM


  Most factory business leaders were NOT nativist: they needed immigrants for factory labor
• NATIVISM

  Nativist groups included the "Know Nothing" Party and the KKK
• NATIVISM

  Led to discrimination: "Irish need not apply"
• NATIVISM

  Nativists thought immigrants took jobs from American born natives
• NATIVISM


  Hate towards immigrants, especially Jews, Catholics, and Asians
• TENEMENTS


  Crowded city apartments, usually with immigrants
• TENEMENTS


  Immigrants caused the Lower East Side (NYC) to be the most densely packed place on earth